User Reviews: Santa's Secret Keeper

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  • It’s amazing!!!

    My friends and I do a secret santa party every year. We weren’t sure how to pick names when Covid started, but that’s when I found this app! It’s extremely helpful and easy to use. It’s now part of our special holiday tradition😊 Thank you!
  • Quick & Seemless

    We’re a family of 6 - mom, dad & 4 siblings. 3 of us have our spouses & there are already 4 grandkids/cousins with two on the way. Suffice to say, we started Secret Santa 4 years ago when we realised buying a gift for everyone was breaking our bank accounts. We tried paper and pencil but realised it was hard to keep track of ensuring no spouses got each other on top of, it’s easy to lose a small piece of paper if it’s not written down. Last year we tried Elfster and it worked fairly well, but we all had to create and account and it was just too much for our parents who are not all that tech savvy. This year I looked for the best Secret Santa apps and came across this one. I already had most of my family’s email addresses and it was easy to add and choose this whom should not get each other. Today (10/21) I sent the email out and it was super easy. No fuss or mess - just a tap and everyone got their match. Without staring at the master list too much, I was able to double check that everyone was picked and that there were no doubles. Love it and will use the app again!
  • It’s great! But could be better

    It would be really nice to have a wishlist or to have a side note on everyone’s name so they may write their own wishlist that way their secret Santa will know a little bit more about them. Also it would be great if we were able to use phone numbers as a form of sending out the names
  • Excellent app!

    This app!! Last year my Secret Santa (SS) exchange went totally wrong. It was just an administrative mess! This year, it was seamless thanks to this app! I thought SS wasn’t going to happen this year since all my participants were in different locations. Then I found this app! Loaded names and their emails and boom! The app is simple to use and does all the work! Only recommendation I’d make is to allow it to send to texts to participants. Despite that, still a 5 star app!
  • Great holiday gifting

    This app is great for our family since we all don’t live near each other in order to draw a name from a hat.
    This is the second year using this app.
    I would give it five stars if I could send an email to all participants from the app or copy a secret Santa group email list.
  • Makes family celebration so much easier.

    Have been using this app for 4 years now. It made our family gift exchange less confusing.
  • Great!

    When our book club went to Zoom meetings, we used this app to help us with our ornament exchange. It worked perfect! It’s easy to set up and easy to use. We’re using it again this year.
  • A great way to do secret Santa’s

    Our family exchange is stockings so the app is nice that we can do this and it figures it out for us. I also like that you can block people so you’re not getting the same person year after year-yeah I will show you who bought for who the previous year so you can block them for the current year.
  • Easy to use

    Super easy to use but if I can make a suggestion I did a similar app last year and we got a wish list It would be helpful that people can put in ideas of what they want so the secret Santa had a better idea of what to get
  • Good app, but missing a feature

    I wish this app had a wishlist section. If it had that, it would be the perfect app. I also wish it was easier doing exclusions. If you could exclude men from a list, or women from a list. Otherwise, it’s a decent app.

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